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Measuring the gap between Ireland's climate aspirations and climate actions.

  1. 21/05/2025

    Ep 30 - Climate Action Plan

    Ireland has a Climate Action Plan that the government maintains will succeed in reducing our Greenhouse Gases in line with what we are legally obliged to do. Nobody else agrees. This programme measures the gap between what we have to do and what we are actually getting done.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  2. 14/05/2025

    Ep 29 - Shipping

    90% of everything imported into Ireland arrives by ship. That's a thousand ships a month docking in Irish ports. If shipping and aviation continue business as usual, by 2050 they will do more global warming combined than agriculture. It turns out there are surprisingly simple things the shipping industry could do to clean up its act, but they chose not to.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  3. 07/05/2025

    Ep 28 - Migration

    As the world gets warmer how may climate refugees will arrive in Ireland?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  4. 30/04/2025

    Ep 27 - AMOC

    The evidence for and against the Atlantic's overturning current reaching a tipping point this century.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  5. 23/04/2025

    Ep 26 - Has the Jet Stream lost its way?

    Has the key shaper of Ireland's weather been knocked off course by climate change?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  6. 16/04/2025

    Ep 25 - Methane

    Does the programme for government rely on bad science for reducing methane emissions from farming?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  7. 24/07/2024

    Ep 24 – Our world at 1.5

    Because temperatures went above 1.5 degrees of additional warming, 2023 and 2024 provided a look into our climate future. What do extreme weather events in the last year tells us about what the planet will look like in ten year’s time?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  8. 17/07/2024

    Ep 23 – Net Zero

    Will climate action work? If we spend trillions on a Green Transition what are the chances we will get Net Zero carbon emissions by 2050? Philip speaks to one of the few people with right mix of skills to make an informed assessment of this generation’s chances of saving humankind.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Measuring the gap between Ireland's climate aspirations and climate actions.

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  • Channel
    RTÉ
  • Creator
    RTÉ Radio 1
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2025
  • Episodes
    31
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Show Website
    Hot Mess

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